Manual Ordering

Details

This solution allows store owners to process sales immediately where a customer prefers to call in/mail order and gets around the inconvenience of creating a new customer order through the Checkout page.

Order and customer details are collected on the Store > Add Order page within the WordPress Administrator and is stored alongside standard online orders appearing in the Store > Sales page and dashboard widgets.

Plugin Integration

Manual Ordering integrates with Offline Credit Card Processing allowing store owners to create new Sales through the WordPress Administration and attach credit card details to the Sale there and then.

Manual Ordering now also integrates with the Members Access Plugin from GetShopped.org allowing store owners to process site memberships without leaving the WordPress Administration.

Documentation

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Comments

Ed Mazur

9 years ago

Hi Michael,
My client is looking for a solution for a physical retail store that supplements their online store. This plugin looks like it might be the solution, but we need to be able to handle cash payments and to bypass shipping. Can this plugin do that?

Hi Ed, sure can 🙂 Without giving too much away this Plugin will be merging closer and closer into the POS space through a dedicated addon for Manual Ordering with touch-screen friendly layouts and deeper WP e-Commerce integration.

As it stands right now you can select stock, quantities, set the total payment amount and save the Sale. Give it a go, get in touch if you need some changes 🙂

What I’m really missing is a posibility to order product variations.
We have boiught the plugin but it only shows the main products which in our case have no default price since only the variations can be ordered online.

It would be nice if the main product name could become a dropdown in the case of product variations because at the moment the plugin is useless to us.
I’m sure I could add extra products for the manual ordering and not show them in the online shop but adding them twice seems to be the wrong way of going about this.

Can you indicate if you are adding this kind of functionality in the future, and if so what the timeline would be?

It is a good plugin otherwise which is to the point and does what it needs to do.

Hi DHvV Interactive Lab, as I just responded on Andrew’s comment variation support will be factored in as part of the jQuery-powered Plugin update. I’ll be spinning up this Plugin for update over the next week. 🙂

Hi Michael,
Just wondering if you’ve thought of adding a category drop down box and then display the products of the category chosen for the manual ordering as having to scroll through a few 100 product is a tad slow.
Cheer,
D

First of all, great plugins! My client (see url i filled in) wants a posibility to keep his stock from the ‘real store’ in sync with his stock of the webstore. They have a pc with internet connection in the store so i was wondering if there is a way to fill in a simple form within the adminpanel when a sale is made fromout the real store so that the stock of an item is immediatly changed. Maybe even with the possiblity to print an invoice afterwards. I hope u kinda understand what i mean. I think when u will make a plugin for this situation you can help ‘A LOT’ of shopowners.

So in summary: Shopowner is logged in on pc in realstore. Customer comes in and buys a product. Product is searched trough name/SKU on pc in wp-admin. 1 click on the button and the item(s) are deducted from the stock and the invoice is set ready to print. The possibilty to setup a custom invoice in html would be nice for that matter..

Hi Thomas, thanks for the suggestion! I’ve drooled over that idea aswell.

This is one of the directions Manual Ordering is heading with a simple jQuery-powered Point of Sale interface for store owners, at this point it’s a while out and will likely be an optional upgrade for Manual Ordering but it’s definitely on paper and will fit into the Plugin’s capabilities.

The Core Plugin of Manual Ordering is really designed for collecting customer details and storing them against Sales, a Point of Sale would require support for anonymous Sales and a method of managing them separate to standard Sales. I’m thinking about it 😉

Hi! I’m hoping the answer to this is yes…because I’ve looked all over and can’t find anyone else with this functionality. Would this plugin allow my to have a person order a product, then send them an invoice, and then have them come log back in and pay later? I know this sounds a little funny, but we need to do it this way for our business. Any way to make this happen?

Hi Adam, with Manual Ordering you have the first 2 processes in place allowing you to generate a Sales order within the WordPress Administration and then send an Purchase Receipt to them, it does not however allow customers to pay as it assumes the payment has been made in-store or via mail order, EFT, etc.

The Plugin could be customised to include a PayPal payment request but this would be custom work and I’m at capacity for new work for a few weeks while updating all Plugins to support WP e-Commerce 3.8. Raise it with me if you’re interested.

Hello Mike, Im interested in knowing if this plugin will allow store owners the ability to add orders to members accounts.
Example being: Customer has an order history stored on the site and I want to add a hand payment made in person to their purchase history.

Hi Alyssa, while I’d appreciate you supporting my work by purchasing an individual license for each site there is no restriction on the number of sites you can use my Plugins. I prefer a non-API key model as it allows customers and Plugin developers to use and regularly improve my work.

Use the manual payment payment option, this will set the collect the Checkout details and set the Sale to Order Received. Once you have the Sale you can confirm with the workshop then invoice the customer, you could alter my Printable Invoices Plugin for WP e-Commerce to generate an invoice which can then be paid by the customer, once this is done update the Sale status to Payment Received and finally Order Dispatched. Hope this helps.

Hi,
We are a small manufacturer and want to run a WP based ecommerce website.
We have a extensive catalogue of small metal patrs for precission and music instruments.
Our problem is that we need to check for availabalibility at our workshop before accepting an order and payment.
We need to set up a shopping cart that allows the following secuence:
Customer selects the parts and ammounts needed from a catalogue,
procedds to check out to confirm order details,
sends order,
upond check up at workshop the order may be:
— accepted if the parts are available or can be made on short notice, then is payment taken and goods dispatch
or
— answer with an estimated time for parts availability, then let decide customer to pursue with order, modify or order later in time

(It is difficult for our business to keep a stock control up to date on the website and fabrication on demand is un-economical).

Hi v, I’ve explored this option on one of my test sites but postponed development until other Premium Plugins of mine mature; like Product Importer Deluxe and Related Products.

Manual Ordering allows store owners to ‘create’ orders through the WordPress Administration; it does not allow you to edit existing Sales. I will look at this functionality once we’re in WP e-Commerce 3.8 land.

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FAQ

Is there a way to edit existing orders using this plugin?

This can be done with our Edit Orders Plugin that adds the ability to change the details of on order from within the WordPress Administration.

Support

Manual Ordering comes with a Quick Start document (readme.txt) to help with installing the Plugin. Additional support can be found from the Contact page or methods below.

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Manual Ordering Forum

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== Installation ==

1. Upload the folder 'wp-e-commerce-manual-ordering' to the '/wp-content/plugins/' directory

2. Activate 'Manual Ordering for WP e-Commerce' through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress

== Usage ==

====== In WP e-Commerce 3.7 ======

1. Open Store > Add Order

====== In WP e-Commerce 3.8 ======

1. Open Products > Add Order

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2. Have fun!

== Support ==

If you have any problems, questions or suggestions please join the members discussion on my WP e-Commerce dedicated forum.

http://www.visser.com.au/wp-ecommerce/forums/

== Disclaimer ==

This Plugin does not claim to be a PCI-compliant solution. It is not responsible for any harm or wrong doing this Plugin may cause. Users are fully responsible for their own use. This Plugin is to be used WITHOUT warranty.

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